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Discussions of sequence or series risk regularly appear in the financial media and are increasingly appearing in the general press. In simple terms, fear of sequence risk drives investors to take equity and growth asset exposures out of their retirement portfolios.

It's not that much of a stretch anymore for savvy financial advisers to offer a broad range of investment and advisory services under one roof, and ring-fence their clients in doing so. David Heather writes.

The Australian Securities Exchange's (ASX's) mFund offering has seen most of its traffic from advisers in its post-launch year, with the majority believed to be there to dilute their clients' allocation to cash and Australian stocks.

Wealth managers around the world are accepting the onset and uptake of social media is irreversible and that they need to do something about it. The banks are pretty advanced in running social media strategies but asset managers and the wealth industry are not.

Many of us are disengaged with our super. We need to stop thinking of this as a bad thing. Rather than trying to look more like self-managed super funds, industry funds should seriously consider Collective Defined Contribution schemes as the next big thing for those of us with more sense, or better things to do than managing our own super.

Reforms to the Future of Financial Advice "opt-in" requirement and big shake-ups for the life insurance market that compromise remuneration practices, increase compliance requirements and escalate the cost of doing business are forcing financial advisers to second-guess the affordability of certain clients.

With the tightening of pension eligibility proposed in this year's federal budget finally passing both houses of Parliament on June 23, financial advisers have until January 1, 2017 to ensure their clients structure their finances to deliver the best possible outcome.